of people filing by looking at the lists of the dead and missing and paying their respects to those who lost their lives however there's also another feeling growing here was well as of grief and that sort of anger and questions increasingly growing as to the revelations that keep emerging about the ship just earlier here about the report of former captain of that ship the boat garia came and revealed some alarming details about the ship's life before its last voyage we'll just have a listen to what he said. i became captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven the ship hadn't even been renovated for a while before that there were big problems with the engines and power generators repeatedly mention that to the management and even had an argument with them then when i later returned from a cruise there was another captain waiting on the bank to replace me just. so as you can hear the debates go on about what actually happened to cause this

sinking but it doesn't do anything to relieve the grief and the sorrow here on the riverbank of august. this is the happy scene that should have seen this ship is designed almost identically to the bulgaria in this room almost identical to the one that children on that ship played in but for whatever reason their fate was very different. the in the air as crowds gathered in remembrance of those killed by the sinking of the volga pleasure boat it was the younger victims that seem to cast the longest shadow. was. these schoolgirls that lost one of their classmates. the most we study together for

a year never had arguments with anyone she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. as divers reached the playroom one of the bokhari is upper decks they found the bodies of the children that had gathered there just before the boat sunk. once inside the boat the bodies were everywhere again the corridors and cabins most of them were wearing the life west divers now have the awful task of bringing the bodies to the surface those left behind can only wonder at how fast their families were torn apart. our colleague was on that ship she went on a cruise together with her family husband five year old son and all say she was pregnant and was to deliver her second baby in august has not found yet only her husband managed to survive she and her son died. and for those children left suddenly without parents the terrible truth they may not be able to comprehend

for years she lost her mother and father we're all but will have to look after her and she's only want to hear. hilde you know it if you tell her we can't she wouldn't understand. there is much that people don't understand about this disaster reports about the ships engines failing about blocked emergency exits and elektra city failure that stopped any s.o.s. or evacuation instructions going out criminal cases have been opened into why two ships passing straight after the sinking didn't stop to pick up a single person into why the aging vessel was allowed to sail in the first place but for those who have lost loved ones the case will never be closed tom barton. for more on how the tragedy unfolded as well as first hand accounts of the possible causes of the disaster log on to our website that's dot com while you're there to

your live from moscow it's still there still ahead for you in the program deciding his fate we continue covering the london high court session which will rule whether the extradition to sweden of the wiki leaks founder julian assange will go ahead. of the you or you over the phone hacking scandal gripping britain goes international now as the u.s. senate takes aim at rupert murdoch's media and. washington's plan to missile shield over europe has been labeled as the main irritant behind a widening chasm in the russian american relations by foreign minister sergei lavrov the u.s. has brushed off moscow's main concerns over the project maintaining the seals only to protect against attacks from rogue states but some say it's actually taking advantage of post soviet business to see it through gun ha got reports u.s. missile defense plans in europe are of course up for discussion here in washington foreign minister lavrov said russian for him legally binding guarantees that the

european missile defense project will not threaten russia's security there has been words before washington has many times said that the system would not be against russia but moscow needs to have it on paper some analysts explained that this urge that russia has for getting everything on paper with promises into paris that were not fulfilled for example when the soviet union collapsed russia was assured that nato would not be expanding towards these borders but he did it continued recruiting new members so the bottom line is words are good but words in a legally binding agreement are better foreign minister lavrov said that's probably the most irritating issue in the relations between the two countries and there is a huge desire to live it behind and to rather turn it into an area of cooperation on the grown that being created on the basis of a miracle there should be all design of missile defense which was accept not. that is a reasonable way to respond to what is there sieved as being the purpose of the system so we want to stick to the original that there would be no parts of the

system which would create risks for the strategic stability and for the but then the strategic stability area namely strategic arsenals of the participants of this system russia has offered building the missile shield in europe together but that offer was turned down nato says russia can participate but it can't be a joint project because russia is not part of nato so that moscow says if that's the case let's base our relations on agreements not just words the shield itself according to the state department will have the whole of europe covered my colleague alex a year he went to romania where the u.s. plans to build the radar and found out what it means for the local population take a listen. the voice my of the romanian village of the still cannot believe his luck after washington picked this place in romania region to locate

a new raider base locals have been all smiles about hypothetical investment. when we first heard that the us would build a retard base here we were a little bit scared police who we were informed that having this piece would mean better infrastructure and possibly jobs in terms lou cool's proposed is to consist of raider facilities and interceptor rockets it is scheduled to be built by twenty fifteen and will become instrumental in president obama's european anti-missile defense shield in the one nine hundred fifty s. an airbase in the town of davis cellar in romania was used by the soviet forces now with washington's plans to place the radar station here locals have a job that should book arrest changed its foreign policy again the place will be occupied by the chinese similar plans were no joke for some other european countries. thousands in the czech republic and poland protested against the initiative to have military bases on their soil with mixed results while the first

line of interceptor missiles was eventually placed in poland the czechs suddenly pulled out of the defense in romania there have been no demonstrations like that at all there is a historical fact and it makes me now one of the most pro on their kind of countries in the world there is this sentiment and this feeling that. the president of the us is contra balance and specifically the us is contra balance. the president's war. of russia in the region if that is the real case then what security would this new shield provide and most importantly defense from who. it is unclear what exactly they're creating as soon as we understand that this is them won't be used against russia will have legally binding guarantees to that then this tension will be resolved. so experts say the issue will remain a thorn in the side for both moscow and washington at least until next year when

the next nato russia council meeting will be held in chicago by the time construction of the raider facility endeavor solo would most likely be in full swing let's see reporting from devore solo and book arrest in romania. minutes past the hour here in moscow wiki leaks founder julian assange continues his fight against extradition at the high court in london sweden wants to question the world's most famous whistleblower over sexual assault allegations but his supporters fear that extradition to the scandinavian country will open a way for the u.s. to get its hands on him he's a lawyer and that is covering the trial from outside the court. today is the second day of what's expected to be a two day hearing the cold feet appeal of jute enough songs a bit whether he's to be extradited to sweden we're expecting wednesday to be given a bit to have agents on the hall of the swedish prosecutor's office since yesterday was given a visit to. defense i phones left the court last night completely tight lipped he

didn't wave to any of his supporters who was standing outside the court he just walked away which must be a direct instruction from his new legal team that he has high especially to deal with a steering the new legal team seem to taken on a new strategy that much more conciliatory about this case a much more concerned with european door and specifically the european arrest warrant under which judeans request to be extradited has been requested it's the legal team all getting that the european arrest warrant is invalid because of discrepancies essentially between the allegations that have been made and the testimonies over the two alleged victims that a full count to be considered ranging from coercion to right up. on the defense team has said that there is nothing in the victim's statement that amount to that and that no option evidence so

a lack of consent in those statements three of the full relegations they say wouldn't even amounts to crimes in the u.k. so it's very much the approach that that's taking hold a they are drawing attention to the fact that us almost has not been charged in sweden that he's wanted them maybe for questioning and they're saying has the prosecution started has he actually been accused of anything and if not then the european arrest warrant is in we may be able to expect a verdict at the end of wednesday but we may know the judge may refer the decision to another day he may put his off and get decision a few days or even a few weeks time we're hearing. reports. more from you on our website including. at the latest news blogs and expert analysis here are some of the stories are online for you right now how it world the famous fast food chain turned into a grocery store officially at least gold's in russia serves up a smart move to save itself a super sized tax bill. also a third

a toilet lucky a russian rocket finally gives six american satellites into orbit and after two days of technical delays this and so much more. dot com. quarter past the hour here in moscow the world's two fastest growing economies india and china appear to have reached an economic faceoff the giants of huge mutual export amounts but it's mostly role materials on india's part while china sells manufactured goods but an even trade is putting new delhi at a growing disadvantage. explains. its dragon versus tiger in the battle for asian suprema see india and china are two of the fastest growing economies but the world's largest population vying for power and prestige in asia and beyond where

india led the way in i t and back office is china race to head in mobilizing its masses onto the factory floor fuelling a huge trade deficit and a reality india is forced to accept that china is not as mentor to hobble. the whole developed world as you'll remember actually because they're using their. sources there were. things that we were to india post world class space in nuclear programs yet struggles to create every day jobs making every day goods something this cotton tycoon knows all too well it's cheaper for him to export to china to get the job. don then let india buy it back. we make a profit of ten percent more in the international market than the domestic market ironically it's indian efficiency that's part of the problem with supply rapidly outpacing domestic demand. if we don't export in the cotton prices in india will

crush and farmers will suffer as they won't get even the original price this will increase the quantity of cotton and even the indian government is encouraging the export of cotton here in the cotton fields of india lies the heart of the indian chinese trade relationship more than seventy percent of the exports from india to china are raw materials like cotton however ninety percent of the exports from china to india are manufactured goods if india is selling well then why should it matter while having a twenty billion dollar gap with your next door neighbor puts power in their hands and makes jobs in savings dry up at home and economists know that only by sewing up a successful manufacturing sector large unskilled workforce be soaked up but it's a blind spot it's leading to blind faith. and we should focus on the. best of luck. so.

maybe. it's a bit different. indian traders seem satisfied too because the set up means the money keeps rolling in. the benefits in exporting is that we get a bigger volume of cotton and we also get paid on time but new delhi is worried knowing it has to cut its cloth before its economic run of luck is sewn up preassure there are tea in the air india. r.t. is coming here live from moscow scandal surrounding rupert murdoch's media empire has gone international after u.s. senators called for their own probe into his news corp company it follows allegations that some of murdoch's newspapers attempted to bribe the new york policeman who access to the call records of nine eleven victims fueled by public anger the british parliament has even showed you will they vote to pressure the mobile to drop his bio plans for the country's largest satellite broadcaster b. sky b. which it out its editor of the day online news service believes the scandal will

grow to threaten murdoch's hold on his in tire media empire. where this does become a question for national security is the idea that police are selling private phone numbers and private contact details of people like the royal family and the prime minister obvious is not necessarily the same to sell these things to a newspaper as it would be to sell them to a terrorist organization but if you can do one you may be able to do the other so it's very serious the whole edifice of news international is deeply intertwined with the downing street machine all that has yet to come out and will cause a lot more headaches but i think what people i talk to and. expecting is for the scandal to go up through the chief executive of news international to james murdoch and james murdoch himself many people say should step down whether he's for. this scape without serious damage is also doubtful although i don't think he's going to retire or leave the helm of the company. check out some other news from around the

world for you in brief this hour the struggling euro has been struck another blow off the move to use one of the big three credit rating agencies downgraded to junk status the move is a warning to investors to steer clear of the bailed out economy verges on the brink of another crisis the same agency calls a political and economic firestorm just last week when it did the same to portugal's debt rating it also prompted a. finance ministers to more regulation on credit rating agencies. at that location of libyan rebels is meeting with top nato and european officials in brussels as the military campaign approaches its fourth month before the talks began the belgian foreign minister announced that the group of belgium the netherlands and luxemburg are now recognize the national transitional council as the legitimate representative of the libyan people and nato spokesman says it's hoped the meeting will be an opportunity to hear

a vision for the future of the country and of the current situation ongoing. hundreds of iraqis were poisoned by a gas cloud that spread across the back after an explosion at a water treatment plant health officials said no one died in all those affected have already been released from hospital most of them were from the city's poorest neighborhood security officials believe the blast happened do you have a chemical problem at the facility. the taliban's biggest achievement in ten years that's what the group called the assassination of the half brother of the afghan president. karzai headed the kandahar province a volatile region on the border with pakistan jerry van dyke who back in two thousand and eight was held by the taliban for forty five days says the killing leaves washington with no one to rely upon when it comes to securing the region. well they karzai it was not just the governor or the shadow governor of kandahar he was the most powerful and the most popular person throughout all of southern

afghanistan this shows that right now with the canadian troops pulling out and with the u.s. trying to now focus on eastern afghanistan feeling that they have controlled the south there is now a vacuum who is in power who can the west rely upon you know what the taliban have claimed responsibility for this but it's not clear that the taliban are responsible it could very easily be a power struggle i've also heard and others have reported that he was responsible for perhaps starting to bring the taliban together with the united states to negotiate therefore someone would have had a definite reason perhaps pakistan perhaps the taliban to stop this we don't know yet who is responsible because they killed the person who had all the information and it was an independent journalist and author gerry van dyke well in just a few moments to meet him with business news to stay with us.

those. little pellets the international sanctions says to takes place in prose on july tenth. live in collections by russian designers the most beautiful the city of central russia. this is a little unfair children's fashion show slim as like presiding over the festival. last year's resolution. this is. good to have your company gold is trading near record highs as investors run full safe haven assets from the debt crisis spreading across europe some from saxo bank believes the strength in the precious metal will continue until the politicians

find a workable solution gold is now the only currency even though ironically it's not really a currency that is sally dating your year long term investment in the sense that this is a currency that cannot be devalued by trying to get money i think the reason why gold is going up right now is that everyone seems to sense that the political solution once again becomes throwing more dead at a day that we need to change that will probably take some pressure off the gold but gold is going up today tomorrow and for the next week as long as the politician play this game of hide and seek and no decision making. well the regime may sell stakes in the seven companies to russia after accepting a bailout for its crisis hit economy these will include gas pipeline companies into refineries russian technologies corp and state run gazprom are among those interested in the assets this received an eight hundred million dollar bailout last month as the cash strapped economy but through its currency reserves moved to the

markets now or oil prices are still mixed still looking for direction the light sweet up thirteen cents a brant down ten cents this is add as increasing u.s. crude supplies and crisis in europe may hold demand for materials european markets are trading in the black with gains a limited after a downgrade of ireland by moody's investor service this is keeping sovereign debt worries in focus group is up three point six percent in london making a top gainer says the luxury goods maker reported revenues up thirty percent in the first quarter. here's a picture in moscow where trading is on for four hours now r.t.s. is a quarter of a percent my sixth down a notch we're halfway through the session so if you look at some of the individual stocks on the my six burbank is up twenty four percent after posting a one hundred eighty percent jump in first half net profits but that's under russian accounting standards. up one percent the e.u.

lifted to quotas from russia and coal miner responses continuous rally it's up three point two percent. two and a half percent gains for the previous session despite the nervousness in europe infecting the russian market peter west and from out on capital still believes there are good stories of trading. speaking of our sectors i do think that in this environment you like to see more support for the defense in names like telecoms like utilities although you could argue what to what extent utilities are rational defensive but nevertheless the more liquid names like those hydro holding might not be put in a bad bets you know in this kind of environment but nevertheless you also have the elections to look out for and we know the detail of this tend to be a so-so with high political risk. telecom so you know i mean ross telecom looks really interesting it's going to get the m.d.c. i listing it's going to have a longer listing and really that we're seeing an increasing interest in that name so i you know this is something which is both a fantasy but it's also

a good story so let's let the top ten investor in russia the presence of the two countries are meeting wednesday for the inauguration of the holts and cement plant near moscow and to discuss a potential free trade agreement now we caught up with this with economic minister to find out what investors are looking for when it comes to russia there is a need around the need for technology here in newtown the technology being. offered by the swiss companies to big companies and to small and mid-sized companies as well and not the other side to be in switzerland people from different branches russian products russian production and development here and there is quite positively and what we stress is being one specced on a free trade agreement this growth can probably be increased significantly and that's what we're aiming. for europe today you can always log onto our web site

r.t. dot com forward slash business for the latest stories and i will be back in fifteen minutes with an update roy's an excellent one. coming. from.

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well are with an estimated two million. question whether there is a way out of the. federal drug control. the problem of drugs and drug trafficking go anywhere no matter how much we fight it and today we're meeting with the head of russia's federal drug service. to talk about the details of his fight and the problems that. drugs on the global scale. thank you very much for joining us today according to officials there more than seven thousand people have died in russia drug related causes since the beginning of the year at the same time there are others who are.

actually more than one hundred thousand and that is actually. why is there such a huge difference in the numbers. you see the figure of seven thousand. number of people who actually died from poisoning that is they took such huge doses that their organs failed most drug users however don't die from overdosing they knew how to measure that the reason for most drug related deaths is internal organ failure due to regular consumption after. in the third place in the world when it comes to drug consumption do you think it's time for russia to implement some sort of punishment for drug use. or term in prison. we have proposed a bill to distinguish between levels of crime which is being upheld by the government individuals large quantities of drugs for most of.